Useless Desires

"Say goodbye to the old building

that never tried to know your name.

Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye old friend:

you won't be seeing me again.

Goodbye to all the windowpanes,

shining in the sun,

like diamonds on a winter day:

goodbye, goodbye to everyone.

 

And how the sky turns to fire

against a telephone wire,

and even I'm getting tired

of useless desires.

 

And how the sky turns to fire

against a telephone wire,

burns the last of the day down,

and I'm the last one hangin' around,

waiting on a train track,

and the train never comes back –

and even I'm getting tired

of these useless, useless desires...."

 

- Patty Griffin

'Useless Desires'

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